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Mon, 21 Jan 2019 03:37:48 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22206Eildon pondage over the last month was stocked with over 500 ex brood stock, both brown and rainbow trout and some have been up the 12lb mark. Riverside drive has been the area to target when water levels are high and power baits, local dough, krocs, and pink Tassie devils are the way to go […]

]]>Eildon pondage over the last month was stocked with over 500 ex brood stock, both brown and rainbow trout and some have been up the 12lb mark. Riverside drive has been the area to target when water levels are high and power baits, local dough, krocs, and pink Tassie devils are the way to go there, Eildon pondage Caravan Park has also done well for anglers particularly near the old boat ramp using similar methods. Near the floating pontoon, spider Mudeyes under float and local dough has had some success mainly when the pondage is up.

Down the Goulburn River, even though it has been running very high through irrigation entitlements anglers that are targeting within 3 feet of the bank and the flooded grassy flats are doing well, scrubbies, soft plastics, vibrax minnows and bladed lures have been the big winners. Being as warm as it has been the evening rise is seeing some nice trout being caught on hopper, midge, moth and streamer pattern flies. Gilmour’s bridge and the Rubicon River is a couple of great areas to have a crack with the fly rod.

Lake Eildon is doing well for natives at the moment even with rather high surface water temperatures being reported. Murray cod are taking purples, frog pattern and black in deep diving lures and spinnerbaits as well as cheese, yabbies and scrub worms from the banks and rocky out crops. Similar tactics are working for the yellow belly, trolling for trout you will need to be down a bit deeper using Tassie devils on Para vanes. Reddies are a bit of a mixed bag at the moment some with a few being of a quite reasonable size, near Fraser camping try the 10 metre mark around the trees, over in the Delatite and Howqua arms try a little shallower, but yabbies, scrubbies and soft plastics are what you’ll need.

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Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:07:30 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22199Lake Eildon is still doing well for the natives at the moment, with Murray cod and some large yellow belly being reported throughout the lake. Murray cod are still taking large bibbed lures in frog or green patterns, spinner baits in purple, black, gold and white, as well as some land based anglers reporting that […]

]]>Lake Eildon is still doing well for the natives at the moment, with Murray cod and some large yellow belly being reported throughout the lake. Murray cod are still taking large bibbed lures in frog or green patterns, spinner baits in purple, black, gold and white, as well as some land based anglers reporting that cheese or chicken fillets are working well. Targeting the rocky points and outcrops and has been a successful method to picking up the odd big fella. Yellow belly are taking yabbies, worms and on the troll bib less crank baits and stump jumpers. The reddies are still about over in the Delatite arm and ford inlet amongst the trees, down to 10 meters and scrub worms or garden worms are what you’ll need for these guys, but yabbies and soft plastics are still worth a shot. Trout have slowed and started to head into slightly deeper and cooler water but there has been a few picked up on stump jumpers and the Tassie devils in pink.

The Eildon pondage has been a little slow this week but anglers are picking up a few of the recently brood stock on pink Tassie devils worked deeper than normal, local dough and the chunky cheese power bait have been the pick of the baits. But the odd trout has taken a mudeye or scrub worm. The bridge, the back of the Eildon Pondage Caravan Park and Bourke st are areas you will need to target.

The Goulburn River is still doing well on the fly especially with the recent weather and insect hatches occurring at the moment. The river is flowing around the 4,000 Meg mark at the moment and is still very fishable if you target the areas close to the bank, scrubbies and maggots are the way to go bait wise here. Bladed lures, small hard bodies and the motor oil soft plastics have also worked down the Goulburn this week. Big river and the Taponga River have been fishing well with scrubbies and celta type lures for healthy brown trout up to 2lb recently as well.

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Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:39:46 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22197The Rocky out crops of Lake Eildon are producing some cracker Murray cod and Yellow belly at the moment, but in some cases it will take persistence, varying your lures and techniques. Towards Fraser camping ground purple stump jumpers have had success for good size Murray cod, the mouth of Big River it was the […]

]]>The Rocky out crops of Lake Eildon are producing some cracker Murray cod and Yellow belly at the moment, but in some cases it will take persistence, varying your lures and techniques. Towards Fraser camping ground purple stump jumpers have had success for good size Murray cod, the mouth of Big River it was the purple Predateck that worked for both Murray cod and a 51cm yellow belly, in the main arm gold spinner baits are taking Murray cod and yabbies for yellow belly, Reddies in the Delatite and ford inlet are taking scrubbies and soft plastics amongst the trees and 10 meters down, over towards Bonnie Doon yellow belly in good numbers are being taken from the bank as well.

The Eildon pondage was restocked with 100 Rainbow and 100 brown trout, ex brood stock up to the 4kg mark last week, both in the upper and lower pondage, and yes the gold Kroc, pink Tassie, the local dough and the power baits are all doing the job. Scrubbies have also picked up the odd brown trout near the bridge and football oval, Bourke st and riverside drive are other areas that are producing some nice trout as well.

The Goulburn River is still doing well on the fly with the moth and streamer patterns landing some nice trout towards the breakaway bridge and near Gilmour’s bridge small hard bodies worked landing a 3kg rainbow trout. Up on Big River, Scrubbies have picked up a few nice brown trout with the best being nearly 4lb, smaller trout have also taken the floating Rapalas and vibrax lures.

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Mon, 19 Nov 2018 04:44:03 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22192Lake Eildon is still doing well for Murray cod with a couple of reports this breaking the meter mark again, one was taken on a swimbait the other on a larger bibbed deeper diving lure. But there has been several others between 55 and 90cm caught as well, these guys were caught on black/gold, red/black […]

]]>Lake Eildon is still doing well for Murray cod with a couple of reports this breaking the meter mark again, one was taken on a swimbait the other on a larger bibbed deeper diving lure. But there has been several others between 55 and 90cm caught as well, these guys were caught on black/gold, red/black and purple spinner baits, as well stump jumpers in the frog and fruit salad patterns.

The best areas for targeting these guys have been near the dam wall, Jerusalem creek, and the Goulburn and Howqua arms. The yellas are out and about as well throughout the lake as well and are taking bib less crank baits, scrubbies, yabbies and soft plastics. The odd school of large reddies are being found amongst the trees in the Delatite arm and soft plastics and scrubbies are the go for these fellas. Brown trout up to 2.5lb are taking the tequila sunrise or the y82 in the Tassie devils.

Eildon pondage has been doing well for rainbow trout at the moment on local dough, rainbow, chunky cheese, and pink power bait. One angler managed close on 40 dipping pink power bait into Jelly crystals needless to say he didn’t keep them all but he certainly had a couple of great sessions. The pink Tassie devil and gold Kroc also picked up as few nice rainbows near the bridge as well.

Down the Goulburn river several of the large rainbows that were released back in September have started to show up again with one going 11lb being caught near Gilmour’s bridge, the rear of the riverside caravan park also saw a big fellas going 9lb being taken on a fly and near Martins lane and Alexandra bridge the power bait is still picking up tee odd rainbow trout as well. Scrubbies, small hard bodies and celtas are working for small and healthy brown trout as well. The Acheron and Goulburn River near the breakaway has seen quite a bit of action on the flies over the past week as well and with the forecast we should see quite a few new insect hatches that will keep the fly flickers happy.

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Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:34:29 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22190Over the past week anglers have been enjoying quite a bit of success in both Lake Eildon and the Eildon pondage. Eildon pondage had another release of 2,000 rainbow trout averaging 200gms and has certainly seems to have fired up the previously stocked trout, Brown trout up to the 5lb mark have been caught on […]

]]>Over the past week anglers have been enjoying quite a bit of success in both Lake Eildon and the Eildon pondage. Eildon pondage had another release of 2,000 rainbow trout averaging 200gms and has certainly seems to have fired up the previously stocked trout, Brown trout up to the 5lb mark have been caught on Bourke st on local dough and Kroc lures, near the bridge and riverside drive, power bait and the dough has also worked on the smaller rainbow trout as well. While the pinks in Tassie devils and soft plastics have been the better lures for picking up the rainbows.

Up in the lake Murray Cod up to 95cm are still being picked up on the troll using frog or yellow and greens in deep diving lures like oar gees and stump jumpers, in spinner baits whites, gold, blacks and purples are working well. Scrubbies, yabbies and soft plastics use from the bank and amongst the trees are picking up quality red fin and yellow belly. But anglers trolling bibles crank baits, deep divers and even Tassie devils are coming up trumps for yellas at the moment. Tassie, or king cobras slow trolled are still the best if you’re targeting trout, varying the depth with down under bombs will improve your chances. The best area to hit are the Brankeet, Delatite, Goulburn, the main and Jerusalem creek arms, Coller and Italian Bays as well as woolshed are also worth a shot.

The Goulburn river remains at a consistent flow of 3,300 meg at present and healthy brown trout up to 5lb are taking Rapalas in the spotted dog, soft plastics in the motor oil and even lightly weighted scrubbies. Insect hatches have been on the increase and fly fishermen are doing well using ant, white moth and small black nymphs, rainbow trout up to 10lb are still taking the power bait from Eildon to Alexandra. Scrub worms, celtas and minnow type lures are the go in the smaller rivers such as the Acheron, Steavenson, Rubicon and Big rivers.

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Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:22:13 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22184Lake Eildon is certainly producing the goods for anglers at the moment, Murray Cod over the meter mark, Yellow belly up to 60cm and Brown trout 50cm plus and a few nice reddies 40 to 60cm, all made for a cracker of a cup weekend. One young angler landed a monster Cod of 104cm on […]

]]>Lake Eildon is certainly producing the goods for anglers at the moment, Murray Cod over the meter mark, Yellow belly up to 60cm and Brown trout 50cm plus and a few nice reddies 40 to 60cm, all made for a cracker of a cup weekend. One young angler landed a monster Cod of 104cm on corn, with others still having success picking them up to 95cm on purple, fruit salad, and frog pattern stump jumpers, spinnerbaits in similar colours but toss in black and gold for good measure.

Big yabbies and scrubbies from the bank have also picked up a few good cod as well. Towards Bonnie Doon and the Delatite arms Yellow belly are taking soft plastics, scrubbies, small yabbies and small trolled hard bodies. Trout are taking a variety of Tassie devils and bibbed lures in orange and yellow colours trolled between 5 and 15ft, throughout the lake. The odd nice Red fin has been picked up near Jerusalem creek on the troll. Over all the some of the best spots on the lake to target have been Goughs bay, Goulburn, Delatite and bonnie Doon arms, Jerusalem creek and the main arm.

Eildon pondage had another 100 ex brood stock trout released into it last week; they consisted of 50 brown trout and 50 Rainbow trout all averaging 3kg and a wide variety of baits and lure have been working well. Power bait in orange, rainbow, salmon eggs in yellow and orange, the local and homemade doughs, Tassie devils in pink, purple and frog patterns, the krocs in gold, black and gold, willow leaf and crab patterns, near nursery corner, Bourke st and the floating jetty mud eyes under float have done well. The best I’ve seen out of the pondage this week was a 12lb rainbow that was taken on a black and gold spoon lure by Ian Thompson

Down the Goulburn river most of the usual haunts are doing well, Gilmour’s bridge, Alexandra bridge and the Thornton beach, anglers once again have done well with the power baits, scrubbies, maggots and a variety flies, and small hard bodies. Quite a few of the larger rainbows being caught down the Goulburn river are still being identified as those that were released prior the rivers opening weekend. The Acheron, Taponga and big river has also produced some small but healthy browns and rainbows on celtas and small midge type flies as well as the old scrubbies.

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Tue, 30 Oct 2018 05:26:32 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22182Eildon fishing report Lake Eildon is firing for natives at the moment with Murray cod being caught up to 110cm, but the more common sizes are between 50 and 94 cm, near the dam wall they’re taking purple stump jumpers up the Goulburn arm and Goughs bay way they’re taking large bibbed kuttafurra lures, halco […]

Lake Eildon is firing for natives at the moment with Murray cod being caught up to 110cm, but the more common sizes are between 50 and 94 cm, near the dam wall they’re taking purple stump jumpers up the Goulburn arm and Goughs bay way they’re taking large bibbed kuttafurra lures, halco and Predateck in a variety of colours, reds and oranges, yellows and greens, ad black and whites.

Spinnerbaits in the purple or gold are also doing well in the same area. Yellow belly up to 58 cm in the Delatite arm are taking very slowly trolled scrubbies and even the clown pattern Tassie devil, amongst the trees jigging soft plastics, yabbies and scrubbies has also worked well for both yellow belly and a few nice red fin as well. The trout have slowed a little but near the mouth of big river the Tassie and spotted dog Rapalas are worth a shot.
The pondage is now a little more stable since irrigation flows have slowed for the moment, and anglers using the rainbow, chunky cheese, and orange salmon egg have been doing well. This week the best report was a rainbow trout 9lb by Col from Alexandra but there are still quite a few brood stock being picked up as well. The Krocs in gold, 60/40, and willow leaf have all landed trout this week and sticking to the bridge and lower pondage is the best way to go.

Down the Goulburn River woolley bugger flies, scrubbies and Rapalas are working well between Thornton and Eildon, but once again the power bait is working near Alexandra and Taggerty. In the Rubicon river its small hard bodies, soft plastics and scrubbies, up in the Big river scrubbies and vibrax or celta type lure are the way to go.

Heres the results of the trophy winners from the Eildon Action Big Fish Challenge
Juniors Blake L won the Largest Carp at 57cm
David P won the largest trout at 51cm
Seniors Kyle F largest Yellow belly at 45.5cm
Alan K largest trout at 77cm
Heath L largest Murray cod at 95cm
And the Campion Angler was Shane G with an overall length of 848.5cm

He aslo picked up the secret length at 19cm and an encouragement award went to Billy E who did manage a fish but landed a freshwater cray instead.

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Mon, 22 Oct 2018 04:40:57 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22177Well the weather over the weekend didn’t dampen the spirits of 120 anglers that entered the Eildon action big fish competition and by all accounts they had a cracking time catching over 400 fish for the day and a half event. Max and the Eildon action crew did a fantastic job with the time and […]

]]>Well the weather over the weekend didn’t dampen the spirits of 120 anglers that entered the Eildon action big fish competition and by all accounts they had a cracking time catching over 400 fish for the day and a half event. Max and the Eildon action crew did a fantastic job with the time and support they had, and many of the contestants are already looking forward to next year’s event. Congratulations and well done to all involved. The recent stockings of 5000 Rainbow trout averaging 180gm and 300 brown trout averaging 3kg certainly contributed the success of many anglers as well.

Brown and rainbow trout are taking local and homemade doughs, power bait in rainbow, pink, chunky cheese, and sherbet, lure wise assorted krocs were working, and with the overcast conditions the purple Tassie devil did well. The best areas to target were in the lower pondage, being Bourke st, nursery corner, riverside dr, the floating jetty and near the gate.

Up in the lake, anglers are having quite a bit of success with most species being caught at the moment, towards Bonnie Doon and the Delatite arms yellow belly and red fin are being taken from the banks on scrubbies and yabbies as well as on the troll using large bibbed lures such as Oar gees, stump jumpers, and jakalls in a variety of colours. The best yellow belly that I’ve heard of for this week went 58cm and was taken on a motor oil soft plastic amongst the trees. Goughs bay and the Goulburn arm Murray cod up to 95cm are taking purple spinner baits cast at the rocky out crops and large yabbies from the banks. Brown trout up to 2lb are taking Tassie devils, spotted dog rapalas, and other small hard bodies.

Down the Goulburn river small but feisty brown trout are taking scrub worms and maggots, while near Alexandra some of the larger previously stocked rainbow trout up to 12lb s are still taking assorted power baits. The smaller rivers are also doing well for anglers using small hard bodies, celtas, and soft plastics, and the fly flickers are picking up some nice trout on nymph, ant and moth pattern flies.

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Sun, 14 Oct 2018 22:53:32 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22172Eildon fishing report Eildon pondage will be the place to be this weekend Sat 20th and Sunday 21st October if you intend on being a part of the Eildon Action Big fish Challenge, there’s plenty of prizes to be had for the both the experienced and new anglers alike. There have been a few releases […]

Eildon pondage will be the place to be this weekend Sat 20th and Sunday 21st October if you intend on being a part of the Eildon Action Big fish Challenge, there’s plenty of prizes to be had for the both the experienced and new anglers alike. There have been a few releases over the last couple of weeks and there is another planned this week and I believe the might be a few ex brood stock in the mix as well. For more information on how to enrol or just to check out the festivities go to the Eildon Action big fish challenge Face book page.

The Eildon pondage has been doing well even with the up and down water flows that are going through it, Bourke st and nursery corner is producing rainbow trout from 250gms up on Gold krocs and a variety of power baits, but lemon twist is number one there at the moment. Rainbow, pink and chartreuse power baits and small hard bodies are working well along riverside drive to the football oval and the rear of the Eildon pondage holiday park.
The Goulburn River has slowed to 7000 Meg as the environmental flows are backing off and will soon steady to the irrigation demands, anglers targeting areas within 10ft of the bank have been doing well. Ex brood stock rainbow trout are still taking power bait with the best report this week being a few around the 10lb mark being caught near Alexandra. Brown trout up 4lb are taking small hard bodies such as the Daiwa double clutches, Rapalas in brook and brown trout pattern and pink soft plastics as well. Bait wise you can go past maggots and scrub worms in any of the rivers in the area, small ant pattern, caddis and black beetle flies are working in the Rubicon River and near Gilmour’s bridge on the Goulburn River.

Up on the lake Yellow belly and Murray cod have really started to fire up, Murray cod up to 90cm are taking large yabbies from the bank in both the Delatite and Goulburn arms, while casting red and black spinner baits cast at the rocky out crops, and trolling large dark bibbed lures are also working. Yellow belly are taking Jackals, purple, black and gold oar gees stump jumpers and spinner baits, with scrubbies picking up a few smaller fellas from the banks. Brown trout up to 3lb are between the surface and 5 metres down and taking Tassie devils in the clown, xmas tree, pink and tequila sunrise patterns.

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Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:22:03 +0000https://www.lakeeildon.com/?p=22170Well the Goulburn river flows still haven’t slowed yet, so it’s still going hard at 8700meg but anglers have had success working closer to the bank than usual. Drifting scrubbies and maggots into the back waters is working well for small but feisty brown trout, with one angler picking up several near Alexandra over the […]

]]>Well the Goulburn river flows still haven’t slowed yet, so it’s still going hard at 8700meg but anglers have had success working closer to the bank than usual. Drifting scrubbies and maggots into the back waters is working well for small but feisty brown trout, with one angler picking up several near Alexandra over the weekend. Power bait, soft plastics, small hard bodies and Celta type lures are also working for rainbow trout up to 8lb close to the banks down the Goulburn River. The smaller streams and rivers are also producing small rainbow and brown trout using similar methods, I wouldn’t be using the power bait in them though.

Eildon pondage had a release of 25 rainbow and 25 brown trout ex brood stock averaging 4kg as well as 250 rainbow trout @ 240gm, and there is another release planned for late this month. Anglers using gold Wasabi and Kroc lures as well as the old pink Tassie devil managed to pick up a few of the 4kg browns down riverside dr and Bourke st over the weekend. In the same areas rainbow trout were taking the local dough, salmon egg, pink and rainbow power bait, but you only needed to be 10 -15ft out down riverside drive with the currents being what it is. The footy oval, the caravan park and nursery corner were also areas that produced some nice trout.

Up on the lake brown trout are being caught on stump jumpers and Tassie devils (pink, Tequila sunrise and clown) in depths anywhere between 2 and 5 meters using para vanes and down riggers. Yellow belly are still on the go taking yellow and green bibbed lures, soft plastics, scrubbies and yabbies. Murray cod are taking darker lures such as purples and blacks in predatek, and stump jumpers, and surface lures are also still working. The Delatite and Howqua arms, Big River, Jerusalem creek, Wilsons inlet and the main arm near the powerlines have all been good areas to target this week. A few anglers are getting some nice reddies amongst the trees near woolshed and Italian bay on scrubbies and soft plastics.